Forage Section, Department of Plant Breeding, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar-125 004 (Haryana).
The germplasm lines generated at Hisar and collected from different sources were evaluated for forage traits like multicut traits, leaf characteristics, height, fodder yield and biotic stresses for over three to five years. Wide range of variability was observed for all the characters studied. Maximum variability was observed for days to 50% flowering followed by leaf area index, leaf length, number of leaves per plant, plant height, regeneration potential, TSS, green fodder yield and dry fodder yield per plant. To exploit the fodder yielding potential and for improvement in other traits of forage sorghums, taking into account different aspects of the current and future emphatic areas these germplasm resources can be utilized.
Forage sorghum, Evaluation, Germplasm, Growth rate, Regeneration
